| Stiff Little Fingers – Gate 49 Lyrics | 12 years ago |
| Song about being homesick. Gate 49 refers to the departure gate at Heathrow where flights to Belfast departed at the time the song was written | |
| Pink Floyd – Breathe Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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Why can't these be highlighted & copied. This is a real bummer for those of us who like to embed lyrics into mp3s |
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| Fish – Tiki 4 Lyrics | 13 years ago |
| Lots of Masonic imagery in 2nd verse | |
| Arab Strap – Peep Peep Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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Once again, I've gone a bit too far and I wish that was you there, peep-peeping. Then as you rolled down the window of your car, you'd say "hello, stranger, how you been keeping?" And I'd tell you I've never been so fine. But you could tell something's amiss so we'd go and buy your favourite wine and while it chills, we could sit and reminisce. But I know now you'd drive right by and so you should, after the way I was then. And I hope you finish everything you try but I can never be your brother again. It's not me who changed, I still love to roam. Just pick me up and take me home. It's not me who changed, I still love to roam. Just pick me up and take me home. It's not me who changed, I still love to roam. Just pick me up and take me home. It's not me who changed, I still love to roam. Just pick me up and take me home. |
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| Snow Patrol – Disaster Button Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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A fantastic song from a fantastic album. To my Northern Irish ear it sounds like "I'm like a prisoner getting ready to talk", "blood in my hands and the threat in your walk" and "puts a vault in my step" |
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| Snow Patrol – Engines Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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I think he's basically saying she's the engine & he's the fuel - she'll use him up but he really doesn't mind "Caught in a jet stream caught in a gorgeous howl all the world lost in noise Use me forever use me for rocket fuel, I'll be air I'll be fire" |
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| Amy Lavere – Killing Him Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| I saw her live 27/10/08 in Belfast N.Ireland (supporting Seasick Steve). She introduced this song by explaining that it was inspired by a news clip of a woman who'd killed her husband who was screaming "Killing him didn’t make the love go away" as she was dragged off in handcuffs | |
| Marillion – Warm Wet Circles Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| Fidra lighthouse is in East Lothian - close to Fish's home | |
| Marillion – Hotel Hobbies Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| This is the 1st song on the album and it very clearly sets out the theme of the album:- an excess of alcohol and substances and a feeling of dissatisfaction with success. Fish has said that the whole album reads like his resignation letter from the band. | |
| Richard Marx – Hazard Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| The is a town called Hazard in Nebraska | |
| Seasick Steve – Doghouse Boogy Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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Correct lyrics are (Here come the 3-string Trance Wonder! We gon' do the Dog House!) (Oh yeah) All my life I been in the dog house I guess that just where I belong That just the way the dice roll Do my dog house song We gon' get pers'nal now Ain't the kinda blues ya have for one day Ya have it ya whole life long Ya got ta be a professional To sing the dog house song Aoooh! Ooh oohooh Aoooh! Ooh oohooh Aoooh! Mmh mmhmmh Sing the dog house song! Dog house! The dog house The dog house! Ya hear my dog house song I'm gon' tell mah story: Now my mom an' dad broke up when I wa 4 years old When I was seven she went and got herself another man; it was hell, y'all I left home 'fore I was 14 years of age; I figured I'd do better on my own But then followed eleven years of bumb'lin' around and livin' kinda hand-in-mouth Sometimes gettin' locked up an' somet- sometimes just goin' cold and hungry I didn't have me no real school education, so what in the hell what I was gonna be able to do? But I always did pick on the guitar; I used to put the hat out for spare change But now I'm makin' this here record and I'm still tryin' to get your spare change I don't know why went wrong but it ain't bad now And I just keep playin' my dog house music Sing the dog house song...! Aoooh! Ooh oohooh Aoooh! Ooh oohooh Aoooh! Ooh oohooh Sing the dog house song...! Dog house! The dog house, hah j- The dog house! hooh, hoo Sing the dog house song! Dog house! A'right yeah Dog house! Oh do it I'm- Dog house! Do it ow- Sing the dog house song Sing the dog house song! Sing the dog house song! Yeah Sing the dog house song! Sing the dog house song! I'll sing the dog house song! Yeah Sing the dog house song! Y'all [Repeat, Fade] |
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| Talking Heads – Take Me To The River Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| \he's drawing a link between religion and love - something that has been done many times by many people. He's asking her to 'baptise him' - basically shag him! Its as simple and basic as that | |
| Mike And The Mechanics – The Living Years Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| Written by B A Robertson - I saw him perform it live on uk daytime tv a few years ago - he said its about regret over the death of his father | |
| Snow Patrol – I Am an Astronaut Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| Class childlike lyric - should it not read "He's a real gone man" rather than "gunman" though? | |
| Feargal Sharkey – A Good Heart Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| Written by Maria McKee about the end of her relationship with Benmont Tench (a member of Tom Petty's Band). Tench responded by writing "You Little thief" also recorded by Fergal. So Sharkey recorded two singles about the breakup of a relationship each written from the opposing viewpoint. Kinda cool | |
| Feargal Sharkey – You Little Thief Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| Written by Benmont Tench, a member of Tom Petty's band, in response to Maria McKee writing "A Good Heart" about the end of KcKee's relationship with Tench. So Sharkey recorded two singles about the breakup of a relationship each written from the opposing viewpoint. Kinda cool | |
| Snow Patrol – Making Enemies Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| Not meaning related but the start of the track features backwards masking. Being the sado I am I did reverse it. No messages from Satan though just "Yea yea yeah" repeated, I really must get a life :) | |
| Steve Earle – No. 29 Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| Like so many SE songs doesn't take much explaining - American footballer looking back to before the accident which ended his career. | |
| Snow Patrol – An Olive Grove Facing the Sea (Live at Somerset House DVD version) Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| Only slight differences from "When Its All Over We Still Have to Clear Up" but I thought I'd post anyway | |
| Snow Patrol – An Olive Grove Facing the Sea Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| Appears on the Live At Somerset House DVD – although the lyrics are slightly changed. I'll post them separately | |
| Snow Patrol – Get Balsamic Vinegar... Quick You Fool Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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Sorry for the double post but I've just found tabs that suggest "if i could hear you say sorry dear" Which sounds about right & would make the comlete lyric cut my eyes out dear so i can't see your smug grin you're right you always win untie my hands now i'm game up to a point and we're well past bedtime now all this time away an' i'm freezing cold now If I could hear you say sorry dear i try hard not to laugh as she trips up on the step and her look turns me to stone i'm closer to the truth she hates being on her own but fuck her i'm leaving tonight why should i live this way when i could be with someone else i don't want to hurt her feelings but she's a crazy fucked up bitch |
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| Snow Patrol – Get Balsamic Vinegar... Quick You Fool Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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Sorry for the double post but I've just found tabs that suggest "if i could hear you say sorry dear" Which sounds about right & would make the comlete lyric cut my eyes out dear so i can't see your smug grin you're right you always win untie my hands now i'm game up to a point and we're well past bedtime now all this time away an' i'm freezing cold now If I could hear you say sorry dear i try hard not to laugh as she trips up on the step and her look turns me to stone i'm closer to the truth she hates being on her own but fuck her i'm leaving tonight why should i live this way when i could be with someone else i don't want to hurt her feelings but she's a crazy fucked up bitch |
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| Snow Patrol – Get Balsamic Vinegar... Quick You Fool Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| There is two lines missing from the above lyrics after "And I'm freezing cold now" but I cant make them out "if I could..." something at about minute 38 seconds into the track. If anyone could clear this up it woul stop me messing around with my eq settings!!! | |
| Snow Patrol – The Only Noise Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| Could it be about Mark McClelland's departure from the band? | |
| Vanessa Paradis – Joe Le Taxi Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| Ashley - she was 14 | |
| Tony Christie – I Did What I Did for Maria Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| Basically what it says in the lyric. Its written from the viewpoint of a man who has been sentenced to death for killing the man who killed his wife Maria. "When he did what he did to Maria" would tend to suggest she was raped as well | |
| Fish – The Field Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| "Jacob's Ladder" has again masonic connections. I'm not sure if Fish is a mason - but he did a fund raiser for Dalkeith Masonic Hall - which is the oldest purpose built Masonic Hall in the world. See also "Innocent Party" in which "cheating in the first degree" would seem to support this theory. | |
| Fish – Innocent Party Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| I think this is about the breakdown of his marriage - although "You sold out all of your secrets" & "cheating in the first degree" have masonic connections. See also "A Field of Crows" which references "Jacob's Ladder" Which has again masonic connections. I'm not sure if Fish is a mason - but he did a fund raiser for Dalkeith Masonic Hall - which is the oldest purpose built Masonic Hall in the world. | |
| Stiff Little Fingers – Barbed Wire Love Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| Bearhunter is right - lyrics were written by Gordon Ogilvie, who was a journalist with the Daily Express | |
| Snow Patrol – Set the Fire to the Third Bar Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| The phrase “Set the fire to the third bar” would mean to anybody from Northern Ireland (like Snow Patrol) that you’ve turned an “electrical fire” on full | |
| Nicky Wire – Break My Heart Slowly Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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I've got to agree with Kurtz - a fuller quote is "“Francis is making a film which is a metaphor for a journey into self He has made that journey and is still making it. It’s scary to watch someone you love go into the centre of himself and confront his fears: fear of failure, fear of death, fear of going insane. You have to fail a little; die a little; go insane a little.” |
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| South Park – Merry Fucking Christmas Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| I'm going straight to hell singing this one!!!!! | |
| South Park – The Most Offensive Song Ever Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| "Damn that bitch can suck a good dick" - class | |
| Fish – Say It With Flowers Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| I heard fish say in an interview that sending short roses is an eastern european way of saying a relationship is over | |
| Jilted John – Jilted John Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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Full Lyrics are as follows Jilted John I've being going out with a girl Her name is Julie But last night she said to me While we were watching telly This is what she said……… She said "Listen John I love you But there's this bloke I fancy I don't want to two time you So it's the end for you and me "Who's this bloke?" I asked her "Gordon" she replied "Not that poof!" I said dismayed "yes, but he's no poof" she cried "He's more of a man than you'll ever be" Here we go -- I was so upset that I cried All the way to the chip shop When I came out there was Gordon Standing at the bus stop And guess who was with him? Yeah Julie And they were both laughing at me Oh she's cruel and heartless To pack me for Gordon Just because he's better looking than me Just because he's cool and trendy But I know he's a moron Gordon is a moron Gordon is a moron Gordon is a moron Here we go -- 2-3-4 Oh! She's a slag And he's a creep She's a tart He's very cheap She is a slut He thinks he's tough She's a bitch He is a poof Yeah yeah - it's not fair Yeah yeah - it's not fair I'm so upset I'm so upset I'm so upset I ought to smash his face in Yeah - but he's bigger than me - ain't he I know I'll get my mate paddy to hit him He'd flatten him Yeah but Paddy's a mate of Gordon ain't he Ah well - I don't care Oh I don't care |
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| Sinead O'Connor – My Special Child Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| I’m not really a SO’C fan but this is a hauntingly beautiful song. It makes her cover of Prince’s “Nothing Compares to You” look decidedly light-weight. | |
| The Kinks – Apeman Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| There is a good cover of this song done by Fish (he of Marillion fame) on his "Songs from the Mirror" Album | |
| Richard Thompson – Madonna's Wedding Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| On one level this is just a funny song taking the piss out of a much overrated celebrity, but I think Richard is making a more serious point about the crassness of celebrity, which was well illustrated at Madonna’s Wedding. | |
| Def Leppard – Rocket Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| I think you'll find the opening garble of this song says "We're fighting with the Gods of War" backwards - I didn't buy the vinyl - just ripped to wav then opened with Sound Recorder (standard one that comes with windows) then effects and reverse | |
| Billy Bragg – From A Vauxhall Velox Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| Vauxhall Velox - 1950s car | |
| Billy Bragg – This Guitar Says Sorry Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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"The time that it takes to make a baby Can be the time it takes to make a cup of tea" Class |
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| Billy Bragg – Richard Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| "When every alpha particle hides a neon nucleus" you don't hear lyrics like that very often! | |
| Billy Bragg – Like Soldiers Do Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| I was stunned that no-one had posted these lyrics. One of his better songs | |
| Manic Street Preachers – Archives of Pain Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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Sorry for double post - "Tear the torso with horses and chains" I think is a reference to the ultimate penalty introduced by Edward I of being hung drawn and quartered. Earliest use was against the Welsh prince Dafydd ap Gruffydd in Shrewsbury and another early use was against William Wallace (of Braveheart fame) both for "treason" Please note the quotes I'm not claiming they were traitors!!!!! Manic.nl site states the line 'Nail it to the House of Lords' refers to Luther who nailed his 95 Theses to the door of the Castle Church in Wittenberg in 1517, which is seen as the beginning of the protestant church. |
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| Manic Street Preachers – Archives of Pain Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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Reference to House of Lords could be a reference to Lord Longford (who was one of Hindley's greatest supporters) or to the House of Lords being the highest court of appeal under British Law. Support of the Death Penalty is not necessarily a “Right Wing” view. Stalin wasn’t right wing, China is not right wing etc etc Its just not a trendy liberal view |
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| Manic Street Preachers – Yes Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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The soundclip at the end of track says (I think) "Two dollars you rub her tits Three dollars you rub her ass Five dollars you can play with her pussy Or you can lick her tits Choice is yours" |
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| John Otway – Cheryl's Going Home Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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This is a rather touching tale about an ex-girlfriend who split with John just after his first hit “Cor Baby that’s Really Free”. John’s live audiences however are well known for taking their amusement at all of John’s disasters be they professional or private (He’s had many of both!!) This track appears on his DVD (John Otway – Beware of the Flowers) as part of one of two live shows included. Part of the way through John tells the band to “Shut Up” and addresses the audience. “This isn’t bloody funny! What do you do when your woman has gone away?” “WANK!” they all reply in unison. “No! No! because you’re crying – Look Cheryl was my baby. We used to sleep together – on really cold nights in December we’d just lie down and hold each other…. And then I had a hit and that train that bloody train went……. |
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| Marillion – That Time Of The Night (The Short Straw) Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| Fish "We'd all banned powders from the farm and were doing well with our limited amounts of alcohol until John Arnison, our manager arrived for a night out with the boys. After the usual arguments and sorting out all our problems, both existent and non-existent, into the early hours of the morning I headed for bed and spent the rest of the night staring at the ceiling unable to sleep and considering my options. I wanted to go. I wanted a life. I was so tired of the touring and felt trapped by the machine we'd created. It was ‘That Time of the Night', a lyric that still reads like my resignation statement." | |
| The Undertones – Mars Bars Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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References explained (for International fans) Mars Bar - nougat topped with caramel and covered with milk chocolate - not to be confused with the american chocolate which contained almonds. Twix - chocolate snack or candy bar made by Mars, Inc. consisting of a cookie centre topped with caramel and coated in milk chocolate. Packets of Buttons - chocolate buttons Patrick Moore - famous UK astronomer Spar - Local convenience store |
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| The Undertones – Mars Bars Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| Not sure about "I've had total fun" If anyone can come up with a better suggestion I'll change it | |
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